She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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